Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 17

h' a linger To Lead 'Forced Marc Lulcinu Afliiue iutte fiddling on Friday 17 ment toJCennedx as a matter the Oakland Space Craft Clubthey're the iines who dig the flying saucer jazz the most meets to-' morrow night the speaker win be DrJtelyifl scheduled to discuss the cosmic wisdom he picked up 2 Three Arkansas Marines hit the road Thursday, walk-ing the 50 miles' from Hot Springs, to Little Rock in 18 hours. 3 A lieutenant colonel in Yuma, reported that he had breezed through the test Wednesday in 13 hours. 4 Two teen-aged members of Oklahoma's 45th National Guard Division stepped off 50 miles in 13 hours, 18 minutes and played touch football along the way. M.Sgt. Bob Robinson, who asked for volunteers from his unit to make the hike, met Pete Pearson and Buddy Baugus, both 18, at the end of their trip.

"They could hardly walk when they got here," he said, "and they said they'd never do it again." day by walking from the White House to the Hay Adams Hotel When it was pointed out that the distance was about a block and a half, the press secretary said he was going to extend the length of his walk day -by -day, on a gradual basis. McHugh got into the picture by telling a reporter Thursday-that he consider aHJ5 mile walk pure pleasure and is equal to a 50-mile hike "every day." Salinger said Kennedy read this report "with some interest" and attempted to communicate with McHughy but found that the general "was unavailable." On other fronts: 1 Fourteen officers of the 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, completed a 50-mile forced march today. When McHugh heard about his prospective assignment at Camp Lejeune, he got an appointment with Kennedy to discuss the situation. As a result of this session, McHugh said, Kennedy decided that all three of his military 'aides should join Salinger, and per- haps ether White House staffers, in a single long hike. The White House-M a i Corps rivalry erupted after the Marine commandant, Gen.

David M. Shoup, recently uncovered a 1908 order by President Theodore Roosevelt requiring all Marine captains and lieutenants to prove their fitness by hiking 50 miles, with the last half-mile at a double-time pace and the final 200 yards at a dead run. Shoup forwarded the docu- Compiled from Lf and (CPU WASHINGTON The White House suggested today two unorthodox moves designed to prove that President Kennedy's aides are fully as fit as Marine Corps officers ordered on a 50-mile fitness hike at the President's suggestion. Pierre Salinger, White House press secretary; reported: 1 Kennedy wants his Air Force aide, Brig. Gen.

Godfrey T. McHugh, to join the -20 Marine officers who will start a 50-mile fitness test at tamp Lejeune, N. next Tuesday. 2 Salinger will take volunteers from the White House press corps on a hike up the tow path alongside the Chesapeake Potomac Canal early next Friday morning. aboard the Great Mother Ship in Outer Space, tell about Kowhe was taken aboard the ship, and then relate "some of my unusual experiences." The club bulletin mentions that membership has dwindled gradually from 106 down to only 35, which Oakland is pretty encouraging.

of historic interest. Kennedy responded by suggesting that Shoup find out if the Marine officers of 1963 are equal to the test prescribed 54 years ago by Roosevelt Salinger told reporters that "The situation has reached the point where some demonstration of physical fitness by the White House press secretary is required." As for himself, Salinger said he went into training- Thurs Sam Klebanoff, a marriage license clerk in Richmond, would like to find the poor slob who came in with his intended bride the other day, if only to tip him off. When a couple applies for a 1 license1' the man fills out the up-I per portion of the blank first, Blast Rips Mayor Hits Powder State on which this guy did, but then his wife-to-be insisted he leave the office while she filled out her half. No wonder. She turned out to be six years older and didn't want him to watch her list her 9 0a 4 i Company Truck Ban i SAN LEANDRO Buildings A state highway department 6 plan to weaken an Oakland were shaken and windows rattled in a wide area of East Oakland and San Leandro at ine guy just sunsea oui oi BlU.

F1SET the office when she lold him to," L. 23 a.m. today when a hand car loaded with powdered ni-tro glycerine exploded at the Klebanoff said, "with his tail between his legs. He's in way is "unacceptable and un-for a rough go of it with her being older." Well, maybe enforceable," Mayor John C. hell outlive her.

Houlihan declared today. Trojan Powder Co. at 2205 Lewelling Blvd. Robert E. Reed, chief coun -SL: 1 Si im.i (a 1 1 i Plant employe Joseph Ro sel for the department, indi- mero, 40 who was pushing the handcar toward a storage Up in Virginia City the superbly edited little Terri- cated reluctance to agree to building when the blast occurred -f was blown clear torial Enterprise dutifully carried a story on the wed- the complete ban voted by the and escaped serious ding of Clint Andreasen and Linda McFarland and re- city council.

4a T.in.a'B mnthpr a the "late Maxine McFar- Instead he proposed an ordi Komero, of 17623 Ranier Hayward, was treated at Fairmont Hospital for mi MUU. a ins tuc traffic only, but would allow Maxine "is very much unlate, and we extend our most uge fr tf nor burns on the hands and face and later transferred to Eden Hospital where doctors sincere apologies. they got on or 0ff within the Gollv. This mav be the first case on record where a city. The ban would apply newspaper, and not the bridegroom, had the first brush only to trucks of more than 4 tons going all the way be- and the Bay Bridge distribu tion structure.

In Lafayette Lynne Stanley finally got exasperated at BAN AT all' say his condition is satisfactory. Force of the explosion left a large hole in the ground, split handcar rails and leveled the empty storage building 30 yards away. Windows of plant buildings 1,000 yards away also were blown out. Claude Kurtz, plant manager, said cause of the explosion and total amount of damage i 1 1 is unknown. Workers used hoses to water never beintr able to trv his teen-age daughter, Laurel, "This is no ban at all," OH th, telephone when needed I It so tab Am.

J-, tne Diner aay ana uruereu kwuu yuiuc, Centrai California. Under the verv own. installed in her room. state proposal all trucks start --X? 1 L' A snr I 1 1 'f '''it 11 1 1 -11 1 I 1 i Jii ttlm A I tf, v. down the area to insure And that aight h.

got home from work and tend Jjf Laurel, as usual, glued to the family phone. He protested Dan wouid apply only to those in anguish, demanded to know why she wasn't using her trucks which come from or against any recurrence of the blast. go to San Francisco, Police and sheriff's depart Houlihan said enforcement ment telephone switchboards own phone, and Laurel explained: "But, Daddy, I'm saving it for INCOMING calls." would be impossible. "Offi were swamped with calls from cers would -have to stop each residents asking about the truck on the freeway and de termine its destination. If the Concussion knocked out sev It's sort of that way with the Stanleys.

They got a vehicle had gotten on in Oak- eral windows in the 87th Ave or planned to get off or pla pet mynah bird and began the laborious process of teach- land, ing it to talk and now they may have to get rid of it. It JJcCato proceed. And proved to be on a through TrtbtHM (Mm ky Tmmy McDtuli Mrs. Lillian Clancy and her five remaining pupils bid fond farewell to ancient Harbor Homes School trip, it would still go through, insults guests. I wrif A 1 i 4" 1 vi a coin nue area of East Oakland 6 miles from the blast scene.

Ambulances and fire rigs were dispatched to the plant moments after the blast. Hundreds of residents stood in front of their homes looking skyward for some indication of the cause. As they invariable do, people come see me Dira Old Harbor Homes School Is Closed ana as. juu uu. Houlihan said he will notify AnA th Mrd fnvarlablv rives the answer Laurel Robert B.

Bradford, state di n. rector of public works, that Harbor Homes School, a the stove was fired up," one wufcunw Reed's proposal is unaccept- 0 able. He said he will press cluster of wooden buildines on ST. ROSE'S 1 11 I teacher remembers, "the children got a recess until the tor state approval 01 me cuy llJ, Pl)l aA Ua Annre 11 I UIW UllkUlU VAWklVU 1m UVW1 0 the boys and girls would play in the shadow of a ship." Teachers took advantage of the busy Estuary traffic and worked it into the social studies programs. "Now if we want to show smoke cleared out." dren who lived in the project walked or rode the bus two miles to Tompkins School.

When the war ended, the "temporary" housing remained and the Oakland Board of Education decided to build a temporary school Tom Russ 01 ine uamna in- the last time tcday in all the fuss about how tne u.s. Marine uorps sup- mA More 4 000 pupils have The school reached its peak enrollment in February of posedly isn't as tough as back in Teddy Roosevelt's day, the state department and the passed through the school in so he looked up an old Red Cross Canteen corps manual eaerai cureau iruuuc tte 15 years children a harbor or ship, we 1961, with 456 students. Then the Oakland Housing take them to the waterfront The announcement that the dating back to the Spanish-American War to see what Dr Easton Rothwell) co. for the children living there. A 10 classroom school was built at a cost of $85,000 and in a bus.

We had these things Authority announced that school would close prompted the troops ate. chairman of the Citizens Com in our backyard." Harbor Homes Housing Proj 1 11 a a. m. i assistant superintendent of schools Forrest Michell to tell i c-vA I miuee AEainsi lrucM on Griffeath left the school in ect would be closed. 266 pupils enrolled for classes WO WOIWer ine men were umgu wiicu.

MarArthnr Frwav 1951, but teachers and princi The people began moving stew for 1,000 men was cooked with "five whole sheep, pressed his personal support HS cf EduCa pals who followed him there away during tne last sum two sacks of turnips, two sacks of carrots, three sacks of the mayor's stand. "We feel as if World War II add to the stories of what it was like in the early days of mer, and "our enrollment has dwindled ever since," Charles has finally ended." cf potatoes, Bishop Begin Will Host Staff Dinner HAYWARD The Most Rev. Floyd L. Begin, Bishop of Oakland, will host a 7 p.m. dinner Tuesday for members -of the St.

Rose Hospital dental and medical staff. Sister M. Bernice, hospital administrator, said the gath-. ering will take place in the new $4Vi million hospital's main dining room. Honored guests will include Rev.

Mother M. Joachim, mother general at the Sisters of St. Joseph in Wichita, Kan and Mother Mary Anne, ad-" ministrator at St Joseph Hospital in Wichita. the school. Cline, the present principal If not a direct product of the hardboiled egg and one or two green onions to each appears desirable, In the beginning, the 10 be said, committee war it wasn't opened until "I feel sure the 1948 Harbor Homes School portable classrooms were man.

on March 9, 1948. Matt Griffeath, now principal at Durant School, was the first principal at Harbor Homes School. "I guess we had the only school in the country where a ball hit into the Estuary was a homerun," Griffeath recalled. "I had a special contraption, sort of a butterfly net, that I used to fish baseballs out of the water," he added. would agree." heated by pot-bellied coal was certainly a stepchild of Obviously they kept in condition fighting heartburn.

burning stoves. the war. said. This week, Cline and Mrs. Lillian Clancy held class with just five students: Stanley Watts, 11; Earl Watts, 10, Steven Watts, 9, Lee Jones, 10, and Jackie Jones, 6.

"There are still about three These were replaced by a The community it was built Beaten Cycle modern heating system sev to serve grew up as a temporary war housing project for eral years ago, however, when in walnut i-roAir K9 nn a nspimo iiHures jjb i children in the project de workers in the shipyards and other industries that lined veloped the habit of filling the chimneys with rocks over the families left in the project," Cline said, "but they'll be gone by Monday, and so will "Ocean going ships would Middle Harbor Road in the tul vui 111 --r" fN Wi In a higher tax bracket than even Frank Sinatra. Ralph (jQp Sot lO picked up a withholding statement from a small machine shop where he did a little work last year, that listed his I ncg Sioht total wages at $377, with $219 taken out for income tax 3 weekend. early pull up right alongside the playground," he said, "and we." "On Monday morning when During the war years, chil and $43 for Social Security. All he got to keep was $115, ALBANY Richard Watson, and if they don't adjust it when he files his return he's 25, the University of Calif or-0mnr tft make speeches for JFK's tax reduction bill, nia engineering graduate 1 student who was knocked off Speaking of crusading for something the Oakland Ms by Jaycees are stumping for seat belts for all cars and will punched as he hy be-selling them for $6 a pair installed on Feb. 16 and -m is recovering 17 at.

Second Avenue and East 12th Street. I only men- ttT surgery to both of his 5 tjon this because it's a reporters dream to be able to cut eyes rpftnrt a hpw storv in advance. At 2 p.m. Monday there 11 Doctors at Cowell Memorial nUnA frnm whirh cmefullv. Hospital said the eye opera ik a ueau-uu tiaau tions were successful and both drivers will escape unhurt because of seat belts.

Watso of imD 5 Pabl0 How do I know? The drivers will be Jaycees, the cars will won't lose his sight His Ha iainni anrf th. accident will be i pubUdtv stunt were siiatterea Dy tne beating 0000 Two youths accused of the 1 slugging and kicking have And next Thursday the Richmond Exchange Club will been booked for investigation the vear. Cart Rallentine. of assault with a deadly uuuuiiuuuuuuu.j- wennnn TVv ar Robert qop there for 13 years. You don't think a luncheon for JXquez, 7of U34 AdS a- policeman is an item? Berkeley, the auto driver, Well, next Thursday is Feb.

14, and it's an item when Sflt2dis2a SLfpksswgM Harbor Homes, a "temporary" wartime housing project on the Estuary, is being dosed and its ancient wood buildings wrecked Vou consider that Ballentine' day is alenune's Uay: in the car..